The Leap of Faith: The Fiscal Foundations of Successful Government in Europe and America
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.


Why are citizens in some countries more willing to pay taxes than in other countries? This book examines the history of the relationship between citizens and their states in five countries, (Sweden, Britain, Italy, Romania, and the United States), and demonstrates how and why people in in some countries have come to trust the government with their money while in other countries they do not. The book explores the evolution of this relationship in detail, in each case showing how some governments developed the fiscal and technical capacity to tax their citizens fairly and deliver public services efficiently. In short, how and why some countries became more trustworthy than others. The volume concludes by examining the implications of these five cases for developing countries today and the lessons that can be learned.
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The Leap of Faith: The Fiscal Foundations of Successful Government in Europe and America
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.


Why are citizens in some countries more willing to pay taxes than in other countries? This book examines the history of the relationship between citizens and their states in five countries, (Sweden, Britain, Italy, Romania, and the United States), and demonstrates how and why people in in some countries have come to trust the government with their money while in other countries they do not. The book explores the evolution of this relationship in detail, in each case showing how some governments developed the fiscal and technical capacity to tax their citizens fairly and deliver public services efficiently. In short, how and why some countries became more trustworthy than others. The volume concludes by examining the implications of these five cases for developing countries today and the lessons that can be learned.
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The Leap of Faith: The Fiscal Foundations of Successful Government in Europe and America

The Leap of Faith: The Fiscal Foundations of Successful Government in Europe and America

by Sven H. Steinmo (Editor)
The Leap of Faith: The Fiscal Foundations of Successful Government in Europe and America

The Leap of Faith: The Fiscal Foundations of Successful Government in Europe and America

by Sven H. Steinmo (Editor)

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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.


Why are citizens in some countries more willing to pay taxes than in other countries? This book examines the history of the relationship between citizens and their states in five countries, (Sweden, Britain, Italy, Romania, and the United States), and demonstrates how and why people in in some countries have come to trust the government with their money while in other countries they do not. The book explores the evolution of this relationship in detail, in each case showing how some governments developed the fiscal and technical capacity to tax their citizens fairly and deliver public services efficiently. In short, how and why some countries became more trustworthy than others. The volume concludes by examining the implications of these five cases for developing countries today and the lessons that can be learned.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780198796817
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 10/02/2018
Pages: 332
Product dimensions: 9.30(w) x 6.40(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Sven Steinmo is Research Professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), the European University Institute . He has published in a wide range of fields including political economy, comparative politics, American political development, economics, psychology, public policy, and evolutionary theory. His first book was awarded the Riker Prize for the Best Book in Political Economy by the APSA. His most recent book, The Evolution of the Modern State, was awarded the Gunnar Myrdal Prize for best book in Evolutionary Political Economy by the European Association for Evolutionary Economics.

Table of Contents

Introduction1. Introduction: The Leap of Faith, Sven H. SteinmoSweden2. Getting to Sweden: The Origins of High Compliance in the Swedish Tax State, Marina Nistotskaya and Michelle D'Arcy3. Creating Tax-compliant Citizens in Sweden: The Role of Social Democracy, Jenny JanssonItaly4. Tax Evasion in Italy: A God-given Right?, Josef Hien5. Explaining Italian Tax Compliance: A Historical Analysis, John D'AttomaUnited Kingdom6. Creating Consent: Taxation, War, and Good Government in Britain, 1688-1914, Martin Daunton7. 'When We Were Just Giving Stuff Away Willy-Nilly': Historicizing Contemporary British Tax Morale, Liam StanleyUnited States8. The Not-so-infernal Revenue Service? Tax Collection, Citizens and Compliance in the United States in the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries, Romain Huret9. Seeing Taxation in the Mid-Twentieth Century: U.S. Tax Compliance, Carolyn JonesRomania10. Tax Collection without Consent: State Building in Romania, Clara Volintiru11. Willing to Pay? The Politics of Engendering Faith in the Post-communist Romanian Tax System, Arpad TodorConclusion12. Taxation and Consent: Implications for Developing Nations, Marcelo Bergman and Sven H. Steinmo
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